Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "great-plains"

1. 1883 (2021–2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Western

The post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon, before settling in Montana to establish what would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch.

Stars: Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Isabel May

Votes: 116,765

2. Prey (I) (2022)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp

Votes: 227,841

3. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Votes: 291,122 | Gross: $184.21M

4. Superman (1978)

PG | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando

Votes: 187,734 | Gross: $134.22M

5. My Own Private Idaho (1991)

R | 104 min | Drama

Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert

Votes: 61,842 | Gross: $6.40M

6. Badlands (1973)

PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri

Votes: 78,500

7. Breaker Morant (1980)

PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Votes: 14,449 | Gross: $7.14M

8. The Wind (II) (2018)

R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A plains-woman faces the harshness and isolation of the untamed land in the Western frontier of the late 1800s.

Director: Emma Tammi | Stars: Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Ashley Zukerman, Dylan McTee

Votes: 9,522 | Gross: $0.03M

9. The Unknown Country (2022)

85 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

An unexpected invitation rushes a grieving young woman into a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas and Mexico.

Director: Morrisa Maltz | Stars: Lily Gladstone, Pam Richter, Tommy Heitkamp, Scott Stampe

Votes: 659

10. The Quest (1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Western

2 brothers and a sister separated by Indians when the younger brother and sister were taken by them. The brothers finally reunite and decide to go on a quest to find their sister.

Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Frank Salsedo, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 294

11. Bender (2016)

80 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The unsettling true story of America's first serial killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters the Benders, homesteaders trapped by a life of unspeakable sin.

Director: John Alexander | Stars: Bruce Davison, Linda Purl, James Karen, Buck Taylor

Votes: 322

12. Reel Injun (2009)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western

The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.

Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell

Votes: 1,652

13. The Quest (1976 TV Movie)

PG | 93 min | Western

Two brothers search the west for their sister, who was kidnapped as a child and is now living with a tribe of Indians.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Brian Keith, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 336

14. Robbery Under Arms (1985 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the ... See full summary »

Directors: Donald Crombie, Ken Hannam | Stars: Sam Neill, Steven Vidler, Christopher Cummins, Liz Newman

Votes: 240

15. Battle of Little Bighorn (2020)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Biography

The U.S. expands westward after the Civil War displacing the last of the free-roaming Native Americans onto Reservations. This show focuses special attention on General George A. Custer and... See full summary »

Director: Molly Hermann | Stars: Steve Alexander, Kirk Chapman, Ron Glasgow, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas

Votes: 108

16. 3 Bad Men (1926)

Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi

Votes: 1,503

17. Paul Bunyan (1958)

Approved | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The life, career, and challenges of the legendary giant lumberjack.

Director: Les Clark | Stars: Bill Lee, The Mellowmen Quartet, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith

Votes: 1,189

18. Indian Paint (1965)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Family, Western

Nishko is a chief's son in the Great Plains, before Europeans arrive. During his rite of passage, he's determined to tame a painted pony. He approaches manhood while his peaceful clan is ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Johnny Crawford, Jay Silverheels, Pat Hogan, George J. Lewis

Votes: 218

19. The Captive: The Longest Drive 2 (1976)

PG-13 | 80 min | Western

During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Richard Egan, Dennis Cole

Votes: 114

20. Lapse of Memory (1991)

85 min | Romance, Thriller

After a terrible accident, a psychiatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks, we learn that his family had to flee from New York City, after his father uncovered a large ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Dewolf | Stars: John Hurt, Marthe Keller, Mathew Mackay, Kathleen Robertson

Votes: 265

21. Hobo (1992 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

Part-time hobos and full time philosophers, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Director: John T. Davis | Stars: Beargrease, Scott Caribou, Minot Louis, Big Red

Votes: 138

22. The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)

Unrated | 25 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

This documentary is about what happened to the Great Plains of the United States when a combination of farming practices and environmental factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Director: Pare Lorentz | Stars: Thomas Chalmers, Bam White

Votes: 753

23. The Life of Buffalo Bill (1912)

Short, Biography, Western

While on a vacation, an elderly Buffalo Bill dreams of his adventures as a young man when he scouted for the cavalry, fought Indians and captured outlaws.

Director: Paul Panzer | Stars: Buffalo Bill Cody, William James Craft, Irving Cummings, Paul Panzer

Votes: 43

24. Conquista (1971)

39 min | Short, Adventure

After the Spanish conquest of South America, solders traveled far into North America in search of treasure. In Conquista, a lost horse from Coronado's 1540 expedition comes across a Native ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Syson | Star: José María Serrano

Votes: 9

25. Lobo: The Wolf That Changed America (2007 TV Movie)

Documentary, Biography

The story of Ernest Thompson Seton's fateful encounter with a clever, death-defying wolf named Lobo, and how it changed not only his perspective but the history of nature conservation in America.

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, David Attenborough

Votes: 29

26. The Chasers of Tornado Alley (1996 Video)

G | 48 min | Documentary

The Chasers of Tornado Alley is an award-winning documentary produced by veteran storm chaser Martin Lisius. It is a unique, behind the scenes look at real storm chasers and how they track and intercept nature's most powerful storms.

Director: Martin Lisius | Stars: Sam Barricklow, Keith Brown, Charles Doswell, Herbert Fiala

27. Blizzards: Whiteout! (1999 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary, History

A look at several devastating snowstorms in the United States, with emphasis on four: two in 1888, one in 1967 and one in 1979.

Stars: Pete Stacker, Marsha Ackermann, John Carter, Bob Crawford

28. Badlands (2016 Video)

4 min | Documentary, Short

Will and Jim Pattiz explore and record the rugged Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Their journey takes them to prairie that surrounds the spectacular landscape that gives the area ... See full summary »

Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz

29. Beneath the Plains: The Minuteman Missile on Alert (2020 Video)

31 min | Documentary, Short

The story of the Minuteman strategic missile program, focusing on the Cold War years. From the 1960s onward, up to one thousand nuclear-armed ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) ... See full summary »

Directors: Bob Noll, Mike Sullivan | Stars: Steve Ket, Linda Aldrich, Don Alston, Bruce Blair

30. White Renegade (1931)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Western

On a caravan to California, Dr. Holt Ezra punishes his wife Hetty for flirting with young men. The caravan stops in the town of Independence.

Director: Jack Irwin | Stars: Tom Santschi, Blanche Mehaffey, Philo McCullough, Reed Howes

Votes: 21

31. Paleo Sleuths: Saber-Toothed Tigers, Mastodons, and the Rise of Mammals (2016 Video)

56 min | Documentary

Paleontologists, notably Michael Voorhies, have uncovered fossils of hundreds of mammal species in Nebraska. For millions of years recurring super volcano eruptions doomed entire ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Hochman | Stars: Marsheli Billy, Greg Brown, Dan Fisher, Carl Hart

Votes: 6

32. Flightless Birds (2005)

22 min | Short, Comedy

The five remaining residents of Fairburn, South Dakota discover that it'll take a god-dang miracle to save America's small towns.

Director: Phil Johnston | Stars: Randy Ryan, Rebecca Wisocky, Carolyn Baeumler, Gene Jones

Votes: 11

33. Chasing the Wind (1994 TV Movie)

25 min | Documentary

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Stars: Howard Bluestein, Lance Bosart, Jon Davies, Thomas P. Grazulis

34. A Home Out West

Drama, History | Post-production

The story of the first generation of Americans to settle the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska, told in their own words. In evocative black and white, it combines documentary and dramatic techniques in a unique fashion.

Director: Steven Schechter

35. Fate of the Plains (1995 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary

The history, present, and future of the American Great Plains and its people.

Director: Christine Lesiak | Star: Barry Corbin

36. Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland (1999 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary, History

The disappearance of old farmhouses, and the families who lived in them, in the upper American Midwest.

Director: John Whitehead | Stars: Linda Kelsey, Robert Bly, William Cronon, Leo Dangel

Votes: 15

37. Tornado Video Classics III (1995 Video)

120 min | Documentary

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Director: Thomas P. Grazulis | Stars: Erik Rasmussen, David Ross, Neil Ward

38. The Chase (1995 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

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Director: Linda Mercer Lloyd | Stars: Betsy Abrams, Aaron Blaser, Matthew Crowther, Charles Doswell

39. Chasing Reality (2011 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Storm chasing is portrayed as an extreme sport on television, but the reality is dramatically different. In 'Chasing Reality,' storm chasers talk about life on the road, their peculiar ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Kridler | Stars: William Hark, Chris Kridler, Dave Lewison, Scott McPartland

40. The Enemy Wind (1992 TV Movie)

40 min | Documentary

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Director: Paul Iacono | Stars: Howard Bluestein, Bill Bunting, Mike Foster, Tollie Hartmann

41. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Surviving the Dust Bowl (1998)

TV-G | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains--the panhandles ... See full summary »

Director: Chana Gazit | Stars: Matthew Modine, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 94

42. Lifesense: Our Lives Through Animal Eyes (1991– )
Episode: Seeds of Life (1991)

30 min | Documentary

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Director: John Downer | Star: Andrew Sachs

43. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: The Wagon and the Elephant (1978)

TV-PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the mid 1800s, Levi Zendt, a Mennonite, leaves Pennsylvania with his new wife Elly; the two head west for Oregon and along the way cross paths with Alexander McKeag.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain

Votes: 146

44. The Great Indian Wars 1540-1890 (1991– )
Episode: The Indians (1991)

Documentary

For the most part the Plains Indians were very diverse in their cultures which are profiled in some detail. But a common aspect was their horse culture made possible when the Spanish, ... See full summary »

Votes: 6

45. 1883 (2021–2022)
Episode: Lightning Yellow Hair (2022)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Western

Elsa makes an unlikely friend; the group faces a harrowing challenge from mother nature; the camp searches for one of their own.

Director: Christina Alexandra Voros | Stars: Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Isabel May

Votes: 3,744

46. Geography Geek (2020– )
Episode: Five Themes of Geography (2020)

10 min | Documentary

Zack outlines the scope of the field of geography.

Star: Zack Fleming

47. Geography Geek (2020– )
Episode: North America Geographic Regions - 8 Regions Footage - Lesson Plan Included (2020)

9 min | Documentary

Eight major geological as opposed to climate) regions of North America are outlined on a map of the continent accompanied by photography of representative landscapes, wildlife and landmarks.

48. How the States Got Their Shapes (2011–2012)
Episode: Midwest vs. The Rest (2012)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

It's the glue that holds our map together and feeds America, but the Midwest is more than just state fairs and flyover country.

Director: Amber Engelmann | Stars: Brian Unger, David Struthers, Wayne Humphreys, Tony Schiano

Votes: 12

49. Nature (1982– )
Episode: Dogs in the Wild: Defending Wild Dogs (2023)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Family

Join scientists as they go to extraordinary lengths to understand wild dogs.

Director: Tessa Worgan | Stars: Nyambi Nyambi, Cole Du Plessis, Hila Shamon, Kimberley Todd

Votes: 9

50. The American Buffalo (2023– )
Episode: Blood Memory (2023)

Documentary, History

America's national mammal, once numbering millions, is driven to near extinction.

Stars: Peter Coyote, Gerard Baker, George Horse Capture Jr., Tantoo Cardinal

Votes: 74